Poggioli Patrick - Sculpture sur Métal - Lantosque, vallée de la Vésubie - Alpes Maritimes
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    I learned metalworking by forging swords and medieval pieces of armour which is something I continue to do. A love of working with metal and the traditional tools of the countryside where I grew up and where I continue to live, led me to use these traditional tools and techniques as the basic material for my art. An axe, bent and marked by years of use sometimes many generations old, is an inspiration for a future sculpture that I will create. Birds with wings made from a scythe, a woman with a body formed from an axehead, a hammer transformed into a child lying in a cradle on rockers formed from the arms of a pair of pliers or a pitchfork. I seek to breathe new life into these outdated tools forged many years ago in the blacksmithies which were common once in the countryside but have now disappeared.

    It is not only a question of faithfully representing scenes from daily life however.

    When one creates a sculpture it needs a soul and so my sculptures try to show something of human emotions. A slight variation in the position of the hands, the tilt of the head and one can move from happiness to sorrow and from joy to anger. It is the same for all my pieces of word, birds, insects, etc.

    To capture movement in the coldness of metal, a heartbeat in a piece of iron, that is what my hands attempt to create out of these old fashioned tools before they disappear rusty and forgotten.